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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An extraordinary new novel of art, love and ambition from Lily King, the New York Times-bestselling author of Euphoria, which sold over 400,000 copies in North America Following the breakout success of her critically acclaimed and award-winning novel Euphoria , Lily King returns with an unforgettable portrait of an artist as a young woman. Blindsided by her mother''s sudden death and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody arrives in Massachusetts in the summer of 1997 without a plan. Her mail consists of wedding invitations and final notices from debt collectors. A former child golf prodigy, she now waits tables in Harvard Square and rents a tiny, mouldy room at the side of a garage where she works on the novel she''s been writing for six years. At thirty-one, Casey is still clutching onto something nearly all her old friends have let go of: the determination to live a creative life. And when she falls for two very different men at the same time, her world fractures even more. Casey fights to fulfill her creative ambitions and balance the conflicting demands of art and life and is challenged in ways that push her to the brink. Writers & Lovers follows Casey--a smart and achingly vulnerable protagonist--in the last days of a long youth, a time when every element of her life comes to a crisis. Written with King''s trademark humour, heart and intelligence, this is a transfixing novel that explores the terrifying and exhilarating leap between the end of one phase of life and the beginning of another.
